Richard Tucker (circa 1818 - August 12, 1881)[1] was a carpenter, undertaker, and state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Craven County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870[2] and in the North Carolina Senate in 1874 during the Reconstruction era.[3]

He was born around 1818.[4] He and his children were enslaved and had been owned by John D. Flanner.[5] He helped build Flanner's Italianate home.[5] He lived in New Bern. He worked as a carpenter and undertaker including at Greenwood Cemetery.[4] He had a close affiliation with judge William Gaston (1778-1844).[4]

He was part of the 1866 Freedmen Convention in Raleigh and the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.[4] He was one of the organizers of the New Bern Education Association established January 1872.[6] In 1873 he was certified as a justice of the peace.[7]

He, George B. Willis and Edward R. Dudley were part of Craven County's "all black, all artisan" legislative representatives.[5]

He married Emeline Tucker in December 1865. He owned a farm and two of his daughters became school teachers.[4] He married Annie Smith Tucker in May 1880. He was interred at Greenwood Cemetery.[4] He active in the Andrews Chapel.[5]

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  1. ↑ "Craven Co, New Bern, NC: 13 Aug 1881, Died, Richard Tucker". August 13, 1881. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "The General Assembly". The Daily Standard. 15 November 1870. p. 4. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Work, Monroe N.; Staples, Thomas S.; Wallace, H. A.; Miller, Kelly; McKinlay, Whitefield; Lacy, Samuel E.; Smith, R. L.; McIlwaine, H. R. (1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 63–119. doi:10.2307/2713503. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tucker, Richard (ca. 1818-1881)". ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Bishir, Catherine W. (November 1, 2013). Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469608761 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "An Act to Incorporate the Newbern Educational Association". www.carolana.com.
  7. ↑ State, North Carolina Secretary of (December 10, 1874). "The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1874 ..." J. Turner, jr., state printer – via Google Books.


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